Staple



"(No Model.)

L..P.P'ETER SON.

STAPLE.

F i-d1 WITNESSES: INVENTOI? Q BY i I ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LARS P. PETERSON, OF HOOPER, NEBRASKA.

STAPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,721, dated October 17, 1893.

Application filed April 18, 1893. Serial N0- 470,926. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LABS P. PETERSON, of Hooper, in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Staples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel wire tightening removable and adj ustable staple, adapted to be used in holding and retaining the barbed or plainwire used in constructing wire fences; the object being to provide a staple by means of which the wire may be slackened or tightened either during the operation of originally mounting the wire, or after the fence has been constructed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows an elevation of a section of a wire fence, one post of which is provided with my improved staples; while Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detail of my staple and a section of the fence post.

My device comprises essentially, a metallic bar A, the end of the main portion of which is preferably round. Near the other end, the bar is curved to form a loop or eye B, the end 0 then extending slightly outward and in line with the body stem, and terminating in a point D.

In adjusting my staples, which may be used upon every post, or simply placed every one hundred feet or so, I first bore a hole into the post, adapted to snugly hold the main portion A of my staple, the staple straddling the fence wire E, which is held between the pointed end D and the body portion below the loop B, as will be understood by referring to Fig. 2. The fence wire E having been previously secured at each end, it is simply necessary to insert a staple upon the neck-portion c on which the slack wire is then wound. After the wire has been strung to the proper tension, the operator simply smartly strikes the staple upon the head, so as to drive the sharpened end D into the post and so secure the staple. Now should the Wire grow slack or taut at any time, it is simply necessary to hit the rounded projecting end a, a blow so as to release the pointed end D, when the staple can again be nicely adjusted.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent,'is

As a new article of manufacture, a wire tightening staple having one end longer than the other, the recurved portion being narrow so as to form a seating for the fencewire, the shorter end being pointed so as to form a removable and adjustable staple, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LARS P. PETERSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD URHLING, G. E. INGLESBY. 

